Ruskin: Sesame and lilies. Unto this last. The Queen of the air. The storm cloud of the nineteenth centuryDana Estes & Company, 1856 |
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Page 91
... Strange , and miserably strange , that while they are modest enough to doubt their powers , and pause at the threshold of sciences where every step is demonstrable and sure , they will plunge headlong , and without one thought of ...
... Strange , and miserably strange , that while they are modest enough to doubt their powers , and pause at the threshold of sciences where every step is demonstrable and sure , they will plunge headlong , and without one thought of ...
Page 124
John Ruskin. to you strange , you would not believe it , and yet it would only be in telling you strange things that I could be of use to you . I could be of great use to you - infinite use , with brief saying , if you would believe it ...
John Ruskin. to you strange , you would not believe it , and yet it would only be in telling you strange things that I could be of use to you . I could be of great use to you - infinite use , with brief saying , if you would believe it ...
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... strange , bleared look about the sun , shining so seldom except through a ghastly glare of pale , persistent haze . May it be that the singular colouring of the sunsets marks an end of this long period of plague - cloud , and that in ...
... strange , bleared look about the sun , shining so seldom except through a ghastly glare of pale , persistent haze . May it be that the singular colouring of the sunsets marks an end of this long period of plague - cloud , and that in ...
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